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Winds of Change Newsletter, March 2010 See sidebar for table of contents
The More Things Change ... Granny D on Campaign
Finance Reform
Ten years ago, when she was only 90 years old, Doris
"Granny D" Haddock walked from California to Washington, D.C. to help
gather support for campaign finance reform.
OVEC hosted her while she was passing through West
Virginia. On January 21, Granny D had this to say, "The Supreme Court
now opens the floodgates to usher in a new tsunami of corporate money
into politics."
Granny D says, if we are to retain our democracy, we
must keep at the Clean Elections work we are doing and we need to
dramatically expand the definition of what constitutes an illegal
conflict of interest in politics. See grannyd.com.
The upcoming months will be very interesting as we
see the fallout from and backlash to this abysmal
Supreme Court ruling.
Already, we have a proposal for a constitutional
amendment specifying that for-profit corporations are not entitled to
First Amendment protections. Learn more and take action:
www.dontgetrolled.org.
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